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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Jackie Cahill: .... It is not sufficient to put phones on silent mode because this will maintain a level of interference with the broadcasting system. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss horticultural peat supply and the willow scheme. The committee will hear from representatives of Bord na Móna. We have new requirements relating to Covid. The incidence of Covid has risen fairly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
...for the challenges and enabled us to make the necessary changes. This strategy involved: eliminating the dependence of Bord na Móna on high-carbon activities; increasing investment in renewable energy, recycling operations and peatlands restoration; and enabling new low-carbon business operations. The company’s journey to sustainability was significantly accelerated when in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Jackie Cahill: ...members of the committee and I have been lobbied strongly by members of the horticulture nursery industries who are extremely worried about their viability and the lack of available horticultural peat for 2022. Thankfully, we are now in the midst of very good Spring weather. Being able to harvest peat in this country for these native industries is essential. I attended a conference in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: ...comes, which is a bizarre scenario. I again propose this week that we invite any of the Ministers who are willing to come to discuss this issue to do so. I have a number of questions - all relating to peat. I am aware there are other issues that members want to talk about. I wish to refer to the working group report on reviewing the use of peat moss, which Mr. Breen mentioned, and its...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Mr. Ger Breen: Bord na Móna has a long association with professional growers in Ireland. To set out two key aspects, we bought professional grade horticultural peat and provided mixing plants so that we might manufacture ready-made compost to meet the needs of our customers. Given our long association, we are aware of the challenges posed to Irish growers. We have been looking to see...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: The working group report indicated that Bord na Móna may have up to 2,000 tonnes of high-grade horticultural peat available. According to correspondence that we have received from Bord na Móna, there may be substantial amounts of other peat. Have the exact amounts been audited and determined yet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Mr. Ger Breen: Yes. There is a volume of professional horticultural peat, estimated to be around 2,000 tonnes, on the Prosperous bog. That will be supplied to ICL at the Coolnamona facility. Subject to quality assurance inspections by ICL, there may also be some additional professional peat available elsewhere. The professional grade peat is subject to high-quality parameters, but we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: The answer is that Mr. Breen does not have specific figures. Regarding high-grade horticultural peat, he used the term "around 2,000 tonnes". Is there a percentage figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Mr. Ger Breen: We sell professional horticultural peat in cubic volumes. From a weight perspective, it is estimated to be 2,000 tonnes. There may be a discrepancy of 5% to 7%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: In terms of hobby or other peat, I take it that Mr. Breen cannot give a specific figure for weights.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: ...have learned is that Bord na Móna has entered into an agreement with what I believe is an Israeli-owned company based primarily in the UK – ICL – and has given it exclusive access to the only peat that we have a figure for, that being the 2,000 tonnes of high-grade horticultural peat, before engaging with the independent expert that the working group, commissioned by the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: The announcement of this agreement indicated the peat use will be for the domestic market alone. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: What safeguards will Bord na Móna have in place in the contractual arrangements to ensure that peat cannot be exported to subsidiaries of ICL or to other third parties outside of Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: ...to others based in the Irish market, Bord na Móna has facilitated the supplanting of Irish-owned businesses by this company, which will have the exclusive rights to the 2,000 tonnes of peat we are aware of?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Mr. Ger Breen: As well as sourcing peat from Bord na Móna, ICL will seek to source peat from other peat producers in Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Many of those producers currently get their peat from Bord na Móna. Is that not the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Mr. Ger Breen: What they get from Bord na Móna is the manufactured product, or what we call ready-made compost, of which peat is only one ingredient. Other ingredients are also required. As I said earlier, ICL is one of the largest suppliers of those ingredients for the Irish professional growers' market.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: On the agreement and this stock of 2,000 tonnes, how much of that high-grade peat is located in storage and how much is on the bogs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Mr. Ger Breen: It was harvested prior to me making the decision to cease peat harvesting.